Emancipating New York : the politics of slavery and freedom, 1777-1827 /
Gellman, David Nathaniel.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
No exit. Labor, law, and resistance in the eighteenth century ; Unfinished revolutions -- Identities. 1785 : the road not taken ; Containing slavery : the Manumission Society and the law, 1785-92 ; Pirates, sugar, debtors, and Federalists : the paradoxes of antislavery political economy ; Race, citizenship, sentiment, and the construction of an antislavery public sphere ; Slavery and the politics of upheaval : the 1790s ; Ambiguous victory : gradual abolition becomes law -- Reflections. Freedom, slavery, memory, and modernity, 1800-27 -- Epilogue : inescapable.
Antislavery movements
Slaves
Slavery
Abolitionists